Lot 124
  • 124

Paul Cadmus

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Paul Cadmus
  • Spring: Spring Cleaning #2
  • signed Cadmus (center right) and titled Spring: Spring Cleaning #2 (lower left)
  • crayon and pencil on paper
  • 12 1/2 by 17 inches
  • (31.8 by 43.2 cm)
  • Executed in 1980.

Provenance

Midtown Galleries, New York
Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills

Exhibited

Oxford, Ohio, Miami University Art Museum; Wichita, Kansas, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art; Yonkers, New York, The Hudson River Museum, Paul Cadmus: Yesterday and Today, Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings, 1981-1982, no. 99, p. 114, illustrated

Condition

Crayon and pencil on laid paper. Recto: In generally good condition aside from buckling to lower half of sheet and a possible small loss of medium at upper left. Verso: Hinged by two 3 inch pieces of white cloth tape at upper edge.
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Catalogue Note

This work is a study for Spring: Cleaning, which was the final panel in the artist's Four Seasons series, painted in 1981.
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